ISHAM NEWS! (19-03-2009)

Eight ISHAM Working Groups will organize small meetings and symposia at the Congress in Tokyo; see the updated program overview here. the Working Groups are listed as WG. Full agendas of all these 50-minute sessions can be found at the ISHAM website here. You will also find some additional 50-minutes meetings, on Lacazia, Pythium and EORTC/MSG criteria. The meeting for ISHAM-affiliated societies, which is open to everyone, will be held on May 26 at 11.00 AM; for the agenda,click here.

A Tropical Fusarium Workshop will be organized at the  Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, UFRPE, Brazil, 6-10 April, 2009. For info go to the website: here.

The 26th International Congress of Chemotherapy will take place in Toronto, Canada, 18-21 June, 2009. The website is www.icc-09.com, and for questions, please mail icc09@ammi.ca.

The 10th congress Mexicano de Micología will be held in the Hotel Aranzazú, Guadalajara, Jalisco, México, 20-25 september, 2009. For contact and info, please click here.

The new Act to promote biosafety and security with respect to human pathogens and toxins has just been issued by the government of Canada, in two languages: click here. For questions Dr. Richard W. Gilpin can be reached at biosafety@controlofbiohazards.com.

ISHAM members: did you vote for your next Council already? If not, please do so at http://www.isham.org/vote/. It’s really simple, takes only a minute. Thank you!